PARIS , Aug 3: A press freedom group on Wednesday denounced the ‘terrifying death toll’ in Iraq as the 100th journalist was reported killed in the country since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003.

Reporters without Borders expressed ‘shock’ at the killing of an Iraqi journalist, Adel Naji Al Mansouri.

The 20-year-old correspondent for the Iranian television station Al Alam was abducted in front of his Baghdad home on Sunday and his body was found on Tuesday in the western Baghdad district of Al Amiriyah.

“With 100 media professionals killed in three years of conflict, the toll is terrifying,” said the RSF in a statement.

“No other war has been as murderous for the press since the Second World War,” said the organisation.—AFP